A little bit about the festival. What impressed me from the first minute on the site - how the oldest and largest literary festival in the world can look so chamber and cozy and leave the impression that you've been on another planet, so the organization is not comparable to anything already seen. I don't have much experience of visiting big book events, and it's probably wrong to compare the festival, where everything revolves around informal communication between authors and readers, with exhibitions...

Edinburgh, the ancient Bastion, covered by mists, and covered with legends. He was not alone in becoming a space of huge historical events. There is still preserved the memory of the famous fighter for svobodanezavisimost William Wallace – "brave heart", in the terrible castles live images of the magnificent medieval novel "Ivanhoe", and stone Walter Scott thoughtfully leafing through the book on the background of the Gothic domes. The unbroken spirit of Edinburgh grows stronger in the piercing melodies of the Scottish bagpipes and forces the traveler to plunge deeper into the layer of years...